About “Tangled Up in Blue”

The opening track of Dylan’s 1975 album Blood on the Tracks, “Tangled Up in Blue” is considered one of Dylan’s finest songs.

The Telegraph said of the song in 2013:

The most dazzling lyric ever written, an abstract narrative of relationships told in an amorphous blend of first and third person, rolling past, present and future together, spilling out in tripping cadences and audacious internal rhymes, ripe with sharply turned images and observations and filled with a painfully desperate longing.

A deeply personal song for Dylan, written during the summer of 1974 in his farm in Minnesota and recorded in December of the same year in Minneapolis, the song is inspired by the changes he was going through, such as his marriage falling apart.

The song reached #31 on the Billboard Hot 100 as a single, while the album reached #1 on the Billboard 200.